Personal use over 14 hour clock

395.8 Personal Purveyance using truck for off duty not related to work.
Read up and keep a copy of the handbook cuz you are going to explain it in detail if you get pulled over.

 

Well, my understanding may be wrong, but I understood doing this was only OK if you owned the truck and if you were not under a load/dispatch. I log off duty from time to time when i empty out and dead head to the house. I flag it off duty, personal use, but again it is my equipment. I think this may make a difference, but not certain.

 

I may be reta....uh, challenged, but I can't find it in the book under that section either. I've been doing it for years, but that doesn't mean much I suppose. Now you have my curiosity up....can anyone point out exactly where it might be in black and white?

 

You should have it in your truck, has a green cover.... Also at any T/S

 

Check the regs , ok but must be empty/bobtail

Stated more plainly, these are the requirements for claiming that a movement is "personal use" that can be logged off duty:

• The driver must be operating a completely empty vehicle, either bobtailing or with no cargo onboard. This also means that if you’re driving a utility truck full of tools (even if your business is a private one), you can’t claim the “personal use” exception.
• The driver must not perform any work involving the company or the vehicle while driving or as a result of driving (e.g., traveling at the direction of the company). In other words, the driver must be completely relieved of all responsibility to the vehicle and the company.
• The driver must be en route to or from home (i.e., commuting), to or from eating or lodging facilities, or to or from some other “personal” destination. If the driver stops at a company facility to drop off some paperwork on the way home, the movement cannot be considered “personal.” Similarly, a driver who travels home from the last stop (bypassing the “normal work reporting location”) must log that trip as “driving.” However, the personal use exception would be available to drivers who report to a temporary reporting location, such as a construction site, and who drive to and from a local lodging or eating facility.
• The driver must not be the subject of an out-of-service order at the time.
• Finally, the driver must not be “repositioning” the truck or tractor for a business purpose. This is the one that often catches drivers and carriers off guard. For example, a driver who leaves a trailer in one town, goes home, and then picks up a different trailer in a different town cannot use the exception. This generally means that the “personal use” must be a round trip and not one-way, although a driver could commute to home as “off duty” and then log “driving” when going from home to a shipper the next day (i.e., if he/she is dispatched from home).

If the trip can be logged “off duty,” it means that there will be no violations of the driving limits or the on-duty limits during that drive time, and the time spent driving would not count against the 60- or 70-hour on-duty limits.

 

There is nothing in the regs re: 11/14/70, only that PC may not be used if OOS.

Nor does it matter who owns the truck.

The OP is fine.